Course description
The Querying Microsoft SQL Server with Transact-SQL course covers the basics of the SQL language as implemented by Microsoft SQL Server. The course is designed to give delegates practical experience in writing Transact-SQL statements using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) development environment. The basic Transact-SQL statements, including the use of many built-in Transact-SQL functions are covered on this course.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Who will the Course Benefit?Anyone who needs to access and work with a Microsoft SQL Server Database.
Course ObjectivesTo provide the Transact-SQL (T-SQL) coding skills needed to query and modify data held within a Microsoft SQL Server database.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
There are no formal pre-requisites for the Querying Microsoft SQL Server with Transact-SQL course, although an understanding of databases and exposure to information technology in general would be useful. This knowledge can be gained by attendance on the Relational Databases & Data Modelling Overview course.
Training Course Content
Querying Microsoft SQL Server with Transact-SQL Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- What is a database
- Database management systems
- Databases, Schemas, Tables, rows and columns
- Indexes, primary keys, unique constraints and foreign keys
- Supported data types
- System Tables
- Getting started with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
- Selecting a database
- Entering and executing SQL statements
- Creating, editing and executing SQL files
- Writing simple SQL SELECT statement
- Using DISTINCT to remove duplicate data
- Filtering Data with Predicates
- Logical operators
- The ORDER BY clause
- Filtering with the TOP and OFFSET-FETCH
- Using Column aliases
- Arithmetic expressions
- Precedence of operators
- Writing Queries using the UNION operator
- Using the INTERSECT operator
- Using the EXCEPT operator
- Introducing the APPLY operator
- Using aggregate functions
- Using the GROUP BY clause
- Using Rollup with GROUP BY
- Filtering grouped data with the HAVING clause
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 6: QUERYING MULTIPLE TABLES- Understanding JOINS
- CROSS Joins
- Using INNER Joins
- Using Table Aliases
- Using OUTER Joins: LEFT, RIGHT and FULL
- Using SELF JOINS
- Function types
- Testing functions
- Numeric functions
- Character functions
- Date and time column types
- Date and time formats
- Functions to return Today's date and time
- Functions to extract components of a date (Day, Month, Year)
- Date time arithmetic
- Displaying Dates in specific Date formats
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 9: CONVERSION AND MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS- Converting a string to a date
- Converting a string to a number
- Converting a number to a string
- Using Functions to work with NULL
- Using CASE expressions
- Using self contained subqueries
- Using correlated subqueries
- Using the EXISTS predicate with subqueries
- Inserting rows
- Updating rows
- Deleting rows
- Merging rows
- The truncate statement
- Transaction control
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John was extremely proficient and patient particularly having to deal with those of us (myself included) not familiar with the content. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend and will ...
Explained very well and at a good pace - exercises well thought out to cover learning material
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Further Learning
- Advanced Querying Microsoft SQL Server with Transact-SQL
- Programming Microsoft SQL Server with Transact-SQL
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